And when you are done looking at this site for the Scots input on football world-wide, here are two more.
For those who literally want to trace on the ground the local development of Scots and Scottish football in our own and other countries there is the newly available and ever-expanding site of:
The Scots Football Historians' Group
And on Scottish sports history in general but inevitably including fitba', see Andy Mitchell's inestimable:
No Scottish-born player had featured for the British Olympic football team before 1948. That year six, all from Queen's Park, were included in the squad of nineteen. Two of the others were Welsh, one Northern Irish and one from Eire with the last a curious situation. Southern Ireland was already a Dominion and was about to become a republic. But then the player in question was living and playing in England. It should on the face of it also mean that no Scot has ever won an Olympic gold medal for football. In 1948 Great Britain would lose in the semi-finals to Yugoslavia and then also be defeated in the bronze medal play-off. In 1952 and 1960 the team would go no further than the preliminary round. In 1956 it would be the quarter-finals, whilst from 1964 onward there would be no participation.
And that might be it except for three curiosities. The first is that, as Scottish Football Association minutes state, in spite of Scotland suggesting it might put together a team for the 1912 Games, the FA refused to countenance it. The second is two players in the Great Britain squad, which went to that 1912 competition in Stockholm. First was Thomas Burn of London Caledonian, but he proved to be born in Berwick-upon-Tweed just across the English border as had his parents. Second was Douglas McWhirter, who was playing for Leicester, had been born in Erith in Kent, as had his mother but whose father, Robert, was from Glasgow, which seemed to make the young McWhirter, if not the first Scots-born winner then the first Diasporan.
Except, of course, it didn't. All it in fact made him was the first British Diasporan to win an Olympic gold medal because of 1904. The Games took place in St. Louis in Missouri in the USA. No European teams could be bothered to turn up but three teams did, two from the USA, from St. Louis in fact, and one from Canada. The Canadian team came from the centre of football in the country at that time, Galt F.C. from Ontario. The team had won the Ontario Cup in 1901, the year of its inception, then again in 1902 and 1903. In 1904 it had been runner-up, to Toronto Scots. And in its team that year were a number of players with Scots names, Fraser and Goulay, Linton, McDonald and Henderson with one more of particular interest, the centre-forward, Alexander Hall. Alex Hall was born in Aberdeen in 1880, brought up in Peterhead. He was a stone-cutter, who first arrived in Canada in 1901, aged twenty-one, left again perhaps soon after the Olympics back to Britain but would return and die in Toronto in 1943. And as such he became the only Scots-born Olympian ever to win the top prize, for soccer at least. A dozen have tried but only one succeeded. The pity is that it was not for Scotland itself.